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Show ' Thursday, May 22, 1930 mE MIDVALE JOURNAL Persian City That Was Razed by Earthquake • When the Navy Bombers "Destroyed" Boston View of tht> city ~f Urumlyeh, Persia, recently renamed Rlzaiah, which was destroyed by an earthquake with a loss of about two tbousa d lives. Convicts Who Burned Tents Sleep in the Open Some of the Unlted States navy's 181 fighting and bombing planes as they theoretically attacked Bostonone of the cities under them on their ISOO-mUe tour of the New England CJ88t. Selec~ the Most Perfect Model in America • Ueneral view showing 600 mutinous prisoners of the "White City" section of Ohio state ~enltentlary at Colum. who were forced to sleep In the open after they had burned their tents In the hope that guards would release them from the stockade. ~us Fighting the Locust Pest With Fire SUES U. S. FOR BILLION Miss Jean drummond, aeventetn-year-old New York girl, was ofllclally selected by leading Parisian and AmerIcan fashion experta as the most beautiful and most perfect model In America. She Is five feet seven Inches· tall, blond, and wefgh.a one hundred and eighteen pounds. The photograph sl•ows Mlsa Drummond being measured wbUe other contestants look on. .. • -:> ·:: :.' .·· : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------· $7,000,000 ·..· .. :: -:~ .· ·.• .-: .:· .· .· INHERITS Paris Dormitory for Americans . J. W. Cook,_sixty-four, a newspaper vender of Dayton, Ohio, who recently averaged about $4.50 per week at Ills business. Ia now heir to a $7,000,01lQ estate as the result of settlement ot bls uncle's will. RIDES IN BIG RACE Rev. Lester Williams, a full-blooded Sioux lndl11n and ordained Methodist l~plscopal minister, who Is suing the United States government for $1,000,000,000. Mr. Williams charges that thll gold taken from the Black Hills of Dakota In 1868 now amounts to a bll· lion, with accrued Interest. and he seeks that amount for 1~.000 lndlans living In that district. ·.·.· -:· l!.lgyptlans sprayln~ chemically produced flames Into the swarms of locusts tl.at were destroying the crops there. This method of fighting the pest was found most effective. ... ------------------------------------------------------ Don Martin Dam Nears Completion ANGLERS' ADVISER Scene at tile Oftt~ opening of the American Students' bouse In University City, Paris. Tile buDding wlll provide dormitory and social headquarters for 180 4merlcan atUdebttl In Paris universities and schools. Medal Struck for Von Hindenburg • Johnny Seymour, former motor cycle driver, who has forsaken two wheel for four. He wlll participate In tht~ Indianapolis :'iOO-mlle Memorial da~ race with Jimmy Mitney as w., mechanic. The two aides of the medal which has just been stamped In commemor11· .... ot Von HlndenbllJir'& fifth 1ear u preaklent of Germany. Laraeat Corporation The American Tele(lbone und TPie grnph Lit said to be the Ia rgest prl vu• e corporntloa Jn the world. II Is the llrst $4,000,QOII,OOO corporatloo. The com· pony hos about 470.000 reglsLPI'ed shareholders and employs 454,000 1•eo ple. Henry O'Mall.ey, eommlssloner of the United States bureau of fisheries. who has Inaugurated an anglers' program over radio s'.lltlon W.MAL In Wushlngton. All kinds of advice to further Lhe Hmbltlons of the fisbe1·men will be given during the summer. Membe&1l nf the bouse und senatoe wbo have taken 11 pr01alncnt part Lg legislative plscutorlul affairs will broadeast, as Will DllUIJ wen-Jmown IUlglera. Vtew of the great Irrigation project known as the Don Martin dam, which Is nearing com1>letlon. When finished It will have cost approximately $11,000,· 000. It Is situated em the Rio Salado, 82 miles souLhw,est of l.aredo, Texas. The project will Irrigate about 160,000 acres of nld and \'lrg4n land. FROM FAR AND NEAR Bears are almost Invariably born In the winter. Tags attached to salmon prove4 that these fish traveled 1.809 mn. bl 4 l!a.;rL llalarla received Its name through the mistaken Idea that It was caused by bad air. Many hospitals are tossJng aside the old convention of ''bosplml white" and are even brlghtentna up beds wl~ c:o!ored aheeta and Dlllow e111-. |